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Laddar... Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empireav Tom Chaffin
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. 3869. Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire, by Tom Chaffin (read 21 Mar 2004) This 2002 biography of the famed explorer and the first (in 1856) Republican presidential candidate is well-done and tells the story of his life well. He made four or more expeditions in the West and they were tough trips. This book tells the story of those trips well, though I was not too interested in them. The account of how California came to be in the US is told in more detail than I have ever read before, and was interest-holding. This is a good book, especially the part covering his life from 1849 on. ( ) At its best, this book is a close examination of an enigmatic figure who deserves to be better remembered. At its worst, it has a certain prefunctory quality to it. These extremes roughly coincide with Fremont the explorer versus Fremont in his roles as military officer, politician and businessman. One could say that Fremont's real talents as an expedition leader and scientist allowed him to rise to the level where his incapacity to be an organization man was exposed. Still, if nothing else, Chaffin does do a good job of putting Fremont in context as an American conquistador. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
The career of John Charles Fremont (1813-90) celebrates and ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its eighteenth-century origins through its culmination in the Gilded Age. Tom Chaffin's new biography demonstrates Fremont's vital importance to the history of American empire, and his role in shattering long-held myths about the ecology and habitability of the American West. As the most celebrated American explorer and mapper of his time, Fremont stood at the center of the vast federal project of Western exploration and conquest. His expeditions between 1838 and 1854 captured the public's imagination, inspired Americans to accept their nation's destiny as a vast continental empire, and earned him his enduring sobriquet, the Pathfinder. But Fremont was more than an explorer. Chaffin's narrative includes Fremont's varied experiences as an entrepreneur, abolitionist, Civil War general, husband to the remarkable Jessie Benton Fremont, two-time Republican presidential candidate, and Gilded Age aristocrat. Chaffin brings to life the personal and political experiences of a remarkable American whose saga offers compelling insight into the conflicts, tensions, and contradictions at the core of America's lust for empire and its conquest of the trans-Missouri West. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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